Sickles Market Is Making A Girl Scout Cookie-Flavored Dessert

LITTLE SILVER, NJ — It's Girl Scout cookie season! And Sickles Market in Little Silver is participating in a contest, now in its third year, where local Jersey Shore favorite spots compete to see who can make the best dessert using Girl Scout cookies.

The contest is called the TopCookie competition and it's organized by the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore.

This year, here are the participating chefs and the Girl Scout cookies they were assigned:

• Amelia Caverly, Booskerdoo Coffee & Baking Company (locations in Fair Haven and Bell Works/Holmdel) – Lemon-Ups
• Chef Lauren Covas, Chef Covas Catering (Long Branch but she does catering up and down the Shore) - Trefoils
• Shannon Phillips, E. Holland Sundries (Bradley Beach) – Thin Mints
• Chef Kendall Szpakowski, Homesick restaurant (Asbury Park) - Tagalongs
• Chef Raechel Lebron, Sickles Market (Little Silver) – Do-si-dos
• James Callano, Strollo’s Lighthouse Italian Ice (Red Bank, Belford, Point Pleasant, Long Branch) - Samoas
• Chef Becca Dolce of Talula’s (Asbury Park) – S’mores

Chefs from these beloved Jersey Shore eateries will present their dessert creations to a panel of judges, led by Monmouth County celebrity chef David Burke, who will select the winning dessert for the title of "TopCookie."

The third annual TopCookie dessert competition will be held March 9 at Asbury Lanes from 6-9 p.m. All the cookie desserts will be on display and available to taste by the public, who can then also vote on the best dessert.

All the money raised from the popular event goes to help the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore, which serves nearly 10,000 girls in Monmouth and Ocean counties and approximately 4,000 adult volunteers.

“I am involved in this event because I like to support the organization and the community,” said Burke, who grew up in Hazlet. “The Girl Scouts help young girls become leaders and entrepreneurs. By selling cookies the girls support their organization, experience camaraderie, teamwork and gain a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. That’s good for the girls, our community and our country.”

In addition, Chef Burke’s executive pastry Chef Stu Marx will be whipping up a “welcome dessert” creation of his own for the event, a one-of-a-kind dessert made with the Girl Scout’s new Adventurefuls cookie. Adventurefuls is a brownie- inspired cookie topped with caramel flavored crème with a hint of sea salt.

Tickets for the competition are $80 and may be purchased along with sponsorship opportunities. The night includes bowling, dessert tastings and light snacks. Cash bar is available. www.GSFun.org/TopCookie

Along with Burke, the judges are:

• James Costello, chef and co-owner of Ohana Grill
• Lori Draz, Special Feature, Entertainment and Food Writer
• Nick Lepore, known as the “Burger Buff," host of cheeseburger pop-ups in NJ and beyond
• Marilyn Schlossbach, Executive Chef and Owner of The Marilyn Schlossbach Group

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